The barrier between spiritual reality and the reality we live in is firm, and not easily penetrable. Most ordinary people never extend their thoughts beyond the “here and now”, and people that attempt to make direct contact with the spiritual world find that it is next to impossible to do so in a normal state of consciousness. It requires a lot of effort and hard work to penetrate the barrier.
However, as you can see from the preceding chapters (and the ones that follow), spiritual reality and the world of matter are intimately intertwined. So how is it that there can be any regular communication between the the two worlds? The answer is “spiritual portals”. Spiritual portals serve as entrances and exits between the spiritual and material worlds, and it is only through spiritual portals that any form of communication can take place. In a way, they are just very sophisticated holes in the barrier.
The reason they are sophisticated is that these portals can be very different from one another. Some are very narrow and allow only information to flow. Others are wide and allow both information and spiritual entities to enter and exit our world. Some portals connect with positive spiritual entities while others connect with darker spirits. Some seem to be wide open, and like a city street, allow communication and transport of all sorts of spiritual entities; good, bad and indifferent. The one thing they have in common is that they all allow communication in both directions.
Personal portals
Every soul on earth has a direct connection with the spiritual world. Thus, everyone, including you, has their own personal “spiritual portal”. This portal remains attached to you wherever you may go, a bit like an infinitely flexible pipe with one end attached to you and the other end anchored in Spirit. Whenever you say a prayer, both the prayer and the unconscious reply from Spirit make use of this portal. The condition of this connection is very much dependent on the spiritual condition of the living soul. For most people, the portal is fairly constricted, and since most people give little conscious thought to spiritual matters, the portal gets little “exercise”. The majority of its traffic is unidirectional and is composed almost exclusively of communications from spiritual entities who are attempting to unconsciously influence the thoughts and behavior of the living person.
Other people have naturally wide spiritual portals. Information and even the spiritual entities themselves flow naturally and unconsciously in both directions between that person and their spiritual connections. We call these people “psychics”. Some people with narrow portals can widen and lubricate their connections to some degree with training and effort on their part.
And then there is the question of what comes through these personal portals. Most people with ordinary mindsets tend to make positive connections with positive entities on the other side. Once connected to positive entities, they generally remain connected to positive entities throughout their lives, and even if that person makes little conscious use of their spiritual link, their guides and spiritual friends will attempt to help them with subconscious “nudges” whenever possible.
On the other hand, people with less benign motivations and behaviors establish communication with negative spiritual entities, and once their portal connects to them, they remain connected to these entities and the negative thought patterns that emanate from them. In other words, good and evil people are constantly influenced by the nature of the spirits that connect to them through their personal spiritual portals. Everyone’s essential nature is established and maintained by the spiritual entities they unconsciously channel. None of this means that negatively inclined people can’t change their overall mindset, but the longer their negative communications are maintained, the harder it is to change the nature and spiritual anchors of their communication channel.
Environmental portals
When most people think of spiritual portals, the ones that come immediately to mind are environmental portals . They include the portals commonly found in haunted houses, abandoned nursing homes and mental hospitals. They exist on battlefields and other places where many people have died. They are also found in natural environments like waterfalls, geological divides and quiet forests.
The fabric of the barrier that divides the two realities is fairly tough, but semi-permanent holes can form in places where a lot of people have suffered strong emotions. These portals may remain in place long after the events that formed them, and depending on the emotional energies involved in their formation, they can permit all sorts of spiritual entities, as well as their mental impressions to enter the earth realm. This accounts for the multiplicity of spirits that may haunt a particular environment such as a house, cave, forest, battlefield, hospital, etc. A home where Satanic rituals were once conducted may have one or more portals which admit demonic entities as well as confused benign spirits. Places where deep emotions, or tragic events have happened may open portals that produce spiritual imprints (non-sentient ghostly plays) to happen over and over again.
Of course, not every emotion or trauma-packed event produces a spiritual portal. A majority of ghosts that haunt a particular house or environment are the result of one-off events that leave behind a troubled soul trapped on the transitional plane (see chapter 6). The creation of a spiritual portal and its resulting two-way traffic pattern usually requires the simultaneous emotional input of a considerable number of traumatized people, or at minimum a great deal of emotional input by someone over a long period of time.
Spiritual portals may form around objects like mirrors and children’s toys (haunted dolls) due to the emotional energy poured into them by their owners. Ouija boards are not necessarily portals, but they may open a portal to whichever type of spirit they were originally used to communicate with. Avoid interacting with Ouija boards in general, but especially those that have previously been used by other people.